Professional tips, tricks, and important points

Now, let’s look at some important tips:

• Photo restoration and photo retouching are all exercises in problem-solving, and each problem requires you to come at it differently. So, as you build your toolbox of solutions, develop workflows and stacks that you know work.
• When you are replacing parts of an image, make sure you read the areas around it to figure out what tool to use. For example, in the wedding image edit, we made a path because using the clone or the Inpainting tool would not give us the best curvature.
• You may not be able to save an entire image, so focusing your attention on the parts that truly matter (such as the faces of my grandparents in the restoration lesson) grabs the audience’s attention and places it on the pieces that they want to see.
• When doing photo retouching, remember to keep the strength low and the hardness on the adjustments soft – humans do not have hard edges.
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